Larry Wall Quotes
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Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
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I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers, your schoolmates, and to erase any sign of difference, to be part of the group. And being biracial but also being black in a predominately white school marked me as different.
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It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
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Let's hope you feel better now.
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When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.
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Mackerel is sustainable and healthy.
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You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
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Regardless of who you are, I believe that everybody in this country is entitled to justice.
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived.
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I've been DJing mostly, and most DJs end up producing. That's just me.
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.
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Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family.
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If I'm going to the gym or the shops to get food, then I don't need to do anything - I'll just put on a pair of sunnies, and that's enough.
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The difficulty of rising into the air increases rapidly with the size of the apparatus. The uplifting of a single person, therefore, is more easily attained than that of a large flying machine loaded with several persons.
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Boldness formerly was not the character of Atheists as such. ... But of late they are grown active, designing, turbulent, and seditious.
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There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.
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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
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When I was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I became obsessed with end user license agreements.
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I never take my own side in a quarrel.
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I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that's become apparent in recent years.
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(Never thought I'd be telling Malcolm and Ilya the same thing...
